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An Exercise in Visible Thinking

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As someone who thinks of himself as a fast walker, I’ve noticed a definite slowing of my pace since I arrived at The Lawrenceville School for the Klingenstein Summer Institute. Every conversation, discussion, lecture, or reading has weighed heavily on me between sessions. To acknowledge Dr. Pearl Rock Kane’s opening address, I have been complicated. This sends me on wild spirals of self-doubt and despair, but also brings me great moments of affirmation. Overall, I think it balances out into that much-needed sense of discomfort that propels me to be better.

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What’s Your Story?

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As the first full day of the Klingenstein Summer Institute came to a close last night, I was really struggling with what to write. We did so much. We examined our personal philosophies of education aiming to ensure that what we were ultimately focused on is the learned curriculum more than the taught curriculum and how we can assess that our philosophy is being enacted. In my curriculum breakout group we started a list of many of the things we hear from students that act as roadblocks to English instruction with the hopes that we can unpack these for what is really the problem when a student says “I think we’re reading too much into this”. Continue reading What’s Your Story? →